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(No Model.)

H. KUHNERT.

LAMP GLOBE COVER AND PROTECTOR.

No. 595,636. Patented Dec. 14, 1897.

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BERLIN, GERMANY.

LAM P-GLOBE COVER AND PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 595,636, dated December14, 1897.

Application filed March 15 1 89 7.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGO KI'JHNERT, a citizen of the Kingdom of Prussia,and a resident of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Globe Coversand Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to pendent lamps for illuminatingand ornamental purposes and is especially suitable for decoratingshow-windows and Christmas trees.

The object of my invention is to provide the globe with a cover whichwill produce not only a highly-ornamental efiect, but also serve as aprotection against breakage, and also serve to equalize the temperature,as will here inafter appear.

My invention consists in providing a lampglobe, preferably of coloredglass, which will contain and conceal the lamp or illuminator, and anouter cover for said globe comprising a netting of laminated metal orwires tangled together to form a network around the lampglobe and thusprotect the glass of the globe from breakage, but also give to the globea rich glistening cover.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 isa side elevation of a simple form of lamp-globe protected with awire-netting; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the form shown in Fig. 1,and Fig. 3 a vertical section of a novel and preferred form of globeespecially adapted to hold a candle for Christmas-tree and otherdecorations.

The glass body or globe A may be pot-shaped, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2,to contain a lamp or candle, the latter being centrally set within thecup at at the bottom of the globe, and a wire cord B, secured to a metalring b, held around the neck a of the globe, serves to suspend theglobe. The globe is covered with a network or mat of laminated wiretangled to provide a metal cover 0 of bright, glistening, and frostedappearance, loosely inclosing the globe and serving to conduct the heatequally over the surface thereof and distribute it from any overheatedportion of the globe to the lessheated portion thereof, and which willalso serve largely as a protection against break $erial N0- 62'7,613.(No model.)

age, and should the said globe be broken by any means the net or cover 0will hold the globe together and prevent the pieces from falling to thefioor.

The wire may be made of German silver in V small threads or offinely-laminated ribbons crimped and crinkled to form a mat ofglistening multidiverging sections.

The lamp is preferably formed in a novel manner with a globular bodyportion A, surmounted by a hood extension B, preferably silvered uponits inner surface I) and having an aperture 1) upon the side near thetop of the hood for ventilation and for the heat generated by the lampto escape from the globe.

The globe is provided with a neck a, and the metal ring I), surroundingthe said neck, may also hold the margin of the laminatedwire mat, thecontracted portion or neck of the globe, however, providing ample meansfor securely holding the mat upon the globe. The mat covers the globeclosely and is of sufficient thickness to protect it completely againstany blows which may come upon it. The light passing through the coloredglass of the globe and shining through the bright many-sided surfaces ofthe tangled mat will appear as a luminous iridescent mantle upon theglobe.

The globe may be partly filled with oil or water and a small float-lightheld therein, as a candle properly supported in the water or a Wicksupported in the oil.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent As anarticle of manufacture, an illuminating-lamp adapted to be hung from anysuitable support comprisinga glass globe open at or near the top, aneck, a hanger and a mat of laminated metal, threads embracing the bodyof the globe to the neck, and tangled together to completely cover theglobe to protect and give to the globe an iridescent or glisteningcover, substantially as described.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signedmy name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HUGO KUHNERT.

Witnesses:

W. HAUPT, HENRY HASPER.

